SINCE 1828
Quasimodo
noun
Qua·si·mo·do
| \ ˌkwä-si-ˈmō-(ˌ)dō
, ˌkwä-zi-\
, ˌkwä-zi-\
Definition of Quasimodo
(Entry 1 of 2)
: the Sunday following Easter
This formal extension or anticlimax of Easter Week is known as … Low Sunday to English-speaking Christians, except for Catholics everywhere, who call it Quasimodo after the first words of its Latin Mass …— Christian Roy The name Quasimodo Sunday comes from the Introit of the mass which is said on this day.— Rev. Jon Bergen Alvárez Maldonado left Cuzco on Quasimodo or Low Sunday, two weeks after the campaign was announced …— John Hemming
— called also Low Sunday
Quasimodo
biographical name
Qua·si·mo·do
| \ kwä-ˈzē-mə-ˌdō
\
\
Definition of Quasimodo (Entry 2 of 2)
Salvatore
\ ˌsäl-vä-ˈtō-(ˌ)rā \
1901–1968 Italian poet and critic
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1901–1968 Italian poet and critic
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